Control cash-box.



1No. 839,398. V 'PATENTBD DEC. 25, 1906. W. MARTIN. CONTROL CASH BOX.

.,APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 18. 1906.

THE NORRIS PETERS coy, WASHINGTON, n c. v

' Toall whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILHELM MARTIN, a subject of the German Emperor, and a resi-. dent of Berlin, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Control Cash-Boxes with a Compartment for 'Showing the Money and a Rotating Device for Pushing it Forward, of which the following is a specification.

\ into a collecting-box.

have fallen behind t e drawer.

This'invention relates to that kind of registering or control cash-boxes with drawers in which the money before it drops into the collecting-box is pushed forward by a starof s okes each time a piece of money is put into the box until it drops through an o ening In the case 0 those apparatus of this kind whose drawer opened on the release of the ratchet-wheel and in which the said opening for dropping the coinin the arrangement of a closing device for the opening through which the money drops, which. is only opened for allowing the coin to drop on closing the drawer and. when the hindmost compartment is thus sure to be under the opening. All the money taken in is thus always accessible to the person attending to the cash-box, and no special receptacle with a locking device is required.

, The invention is illustrated on the accompanying drawings, where Figure 1 shows a partial vertical section with an opened drawer; Fig. 2, a plan view; Fig. 3, a cross-section on the line a b of Fig. l Fig. 4, a cross-section with a closed drawer.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the sample shown in the drawings the star (1, formed by six spokes, is rigidly connected with the pivot or axis of rotation c and moves over the surface f with the opening e, Fig. 2. 'Below the opening 6 is a shaft 9, through which the money when the drawer h is closed, Fig. 4that is to say, in the posi- UNITED STATES WILHEL M MARTIN, OF BERLIN, GERMANY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 1 8, 1906. Serial No. 296,707.

is fastened, beside the spring m, a

PATENT OFFICE.

. 1 CONTROL CASH-BOX.

Patented Dec..25, 1906.

tion of rest of the cash-boxcan drop into the drawer; To the axis or axle '0 is fastened at the bottoma ratchet-wheel i with six teeth, with which engage the click go and the pawl g, which are constantly being ressed y springs against the ratchet-whee The click p is fastened to the lower horizontal leg .of the bow 7c, which pivots on'the-axle c and to whose upper horizontal leg the slide Z, closing the opening 6, through which the money drops, is fastened. To the lower leg 1n 0, which projects through the slot n. P

The device works as follows: When the drawer h is closed, Fig. 4, it rests with its hind edge against the pin 0, and under the tension of the springm it keeps the bow 7c in the position shown in Fig. 4. In this case the slide Z is drawn away from under the opening 6. If now on the box being used the ratchet-wheel is released, the drawer flies open, Fig. 3, and spring m draws the bow 7c into the position shown in Fig. 3. The click p moves forward the ratchet-wheel t', and thus turns the axle 0 connected to it. With this axle'turns also the star by a .sixth .of a circle, whereby the piece of money lying in the preceding sector space or compartment, Fig. 2, is pushed forward into the next above the opening 6. Simultaneously with the bow 7c the slide Zhas also moved and closed the opening 6, so that the coin lies on the slide and cannot drop into the shaft 9. If now the drawer h is closed again, its hind edge strikes against the pin 0 and brings the bow 7a and the parts 10 0 Z, connected with the same, back into their position of rest, Fig. 4. The axle c and the parts (1 and 2' connected to it remain unmoved while this is done, in consequence of the action of the pawl q. The

slide Z, as a result, movesbackward over the opening e. The coin lying on the same is retained by the respective spoke s, Fig. 2, and drops, when the opening previously closed by the slide Zis sufiiciently large, through the shaft 9 into the drawer h, which in any case has in the meantime been sufiiciently closed. What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent, 18-

1. In a control cash-box, a compartment for displaying coin having an opening in the bottom thereof, a device in said compartment adapted to be rotated for pushing the coin forward to the opening, a chute below the said opening, a drawer mounted to slide bottom thereof, a rotary coin-pushing device in said Compartment, a vertical shaft on which said: device is mounted, a chute below the said opening, a drawer mounted to slide below the said chute in closing, a slide below said opening, a bow pivotallymounted on the shaft, havingan upper and a lower horizontal member, the upper member carrying the said slide, a spring attached to the bow for moving the slide to close the opening, a ratchet-wheel on the shaft, a holding-pawl, 20 an actuating-pawl on the lower member of the bow, and means on said lower member adapted to be contacted by the drawer in closing for effecting the partial rotation of the coin-pushing device and moving the 2 5 slide to uncover the opening.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

VVILHELM MARTIN.

WVitnesses WVOLDEMAR. HAUPT, HENRY HAsPEn. 

